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What’s up with coding music? Should you bother building your ultimate playlist? People have been arguing about music and productivity since before cavemen started using Walkmans. After all, we’ve all argued that music played at ’11’ is the only effective way to study algebra.
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Creating text background scroll animation is a unique way to add colorful moving textures to the text on your website as a user scrolls down the page.  With Divi, the process is surprisingly easy once you learn a few key techniques. In this tutorial, we are going to use nothing but the power of Divi’s …

Every web developer has a favorite code editor. Some people swear by an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) whereas others just want simplicity. If you prefer the latter, you may appreciate Sublime Text packages. One of the most attractive aspects of Sublime Text is that it’s highly modular. If you’re a purist, you can use the …

In the April edition of our “People of WordPress” series, you’ll find out how Mario Peshev went from self-taught developer to teaching basic digital literacy.

How much do you really know about your customers? Learn why buyer personas are the foundation of your business & how to create your own in just four steps.

The Jetpack team announced today that its search service is now available as a separate package from the professional bundle … Continue reading Jetpack Re-launches Search Feature as Standalone Service →

Creating interactive design comes with many advantages. One of them is the fact that you can fit more visual content inside a single section and determine how the visual content shows up while visitors are scrolling. It elevates the overall user experience visitors have on your website and takes your web design efforts to the …

On March 3, 2020, our Threat intelligence team discovered a number of vulnerabilities in WP Lead Plus X, a WordPress plugin with over 70,000 installations designed to allow site owners to create landing and squeeze pages on their sites. These vulnerabilities allowed an authenticated attacker with minimal permissions, such as a subscriber, to create or …Read More

Google is always looking to provide better solutions to users’ problems. One of the ways it tries to do so is by delivering answers directly within its results pages to save searchers a click or two. These are what we call “featured snippets.” Not only do Google featured snippets make research simpler, but they can …

Out of thousands of free WordPress themes, how do you pick the right one for your site? You want a theme that will fit your brand, make your site stand out, be lean and offer the features that you need. We’ve reviewed over a million commercial websites running WPML and compiled a list of free …

Denis Žoljom, the automation representative for the WordPress theme review team, proposed moving much of the theme review system over … Continue reading Proposal to Move WordPress Theme Review Process to GitHub →

Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative; where each week, we give away a brand new, free Divi Layout Pack from our design team to you. For this week, Kenny and his team have created an exciting new Event Layout Pack. This layout pack is …

This week, we look at the WordPress 5.4 release which includes turning distraction free editing on by default. We also look at new plugin vulnerabilities discovered by the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team, including those found in Rank Math and a Contact From 7 helper plugin. We review the new features recently added to Fast or …Read More

Leaving a job is stressful, whether you’re excited to move on to a better opportunity or you’re fed up with your employer and need a way out. If you have a good relationship with your boss, you may be worried about disappointing him or her. If you have a bad relationship with your boss, you …

Social distancing is pushing local businesses online. In this post we list some of the practical steps that you can take right now, to find local businesses who need your help. As shoppers stay home in increasing numbers due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, business owners are quickly realizing the importance of moving their stores …

The Events Calendar is the gold standard events calendar for WordPress. It works well with Divi, but to add it to your Divi layouts requires you to use a shortcode. Styling is done from its settings tab in the WordPress dashboard. This makes it difficult to integrate the styling with your Divi layout. A third-party …

One of the advantages of Divi’s design system with sections and modules is they can be pre-styled and reused on many websites. This has opened up opportunities to build libraries of sections and elements to help build your Divi websites. There are lots of places online where you can purchase them. In this article, we’ll …

On Wednesday, Garret Hyder announced a feature proposal for a WordPress Consent API. The proposal is one step on the … Continue reading Proposal to Add a Consent API to WordPress, Feature Plugin Available →

The month of March was both a tough and exciting time for the WordPress open-source project. With COVID-19 declared a pandemic, in-person events have had to adapt quickly – a challenge for any community. March culminated with the release of WordPress 5.4, an exhilarating milestone only made possible by dedicated contributors. For all the latest, …

A timeline layout can come in handy for a lot of different applications on a website, especially if it looks great on mobile. You can use it for showcasing a sequence of milestones on an about page, featuring the steps of a process, and much more. And with Divi’s scroll effects, you can make a …

If you’re on social media, you’ve probably seen a lot of brands that share user-generated content. From a marketing standpoint, it’s a killer move. However, you need to approach it the right way in order to utilize it to your advantage. To incorporate user-generated content in your marketing strategy, you need to understand why it …

A small increase in customer retention can mean huge gains for your online store. Automate post-purchase emails to improve customer loyalty (and profits)!

Have I mentioned how excited I am about the potential of block patterns? For regular Tavern readers, I may sound … Continue reading Create Custom Patterns with the Block Pattern Builder Plugin →

With much of the world shifting to working from home due to public health concerns with COVID-19, video conferencing is booming. Businesses, and even schools, are turning to platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google hangouts and other technologies to stay connected. Zoom has come under fire in recent days due to security issues with …Read More

With Divi’s new scroll effects, you can create any kind of design you want using Divi’s built-in options and add some beautiful scroll motion effects to take your design to the next level. In today’s tutorial, we’ll add a creative technique to your list which you can use for upcoming projects. More specifically, we’ll show …

On April 1, 2020, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team discovered a stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Contact Form 7 Datepicker, a WordPress plugin installed on over 100,000 sites. As the plugin developer’s github page indicated that the plugin was no longer being maintained, we contacted the WordPress plugins team with our disclosure, and …Read More

Reddit is a user-created social news aggregator that’s referred to as the front page of the Internet. That’s a nod to the front page of a newspaper, where you find the most important information for the day. Basically, Reddit is an enormous collection of forums on practically any topic you can think of, and niches …

The team behind BuddyPress dropped the first version 6.0 beta release of the plugin yesterday. One of the most important … Continue reading BuddyPress 6.0 Beta Introduces Group and Member Blocks →

Add 3D Motion Scroll Effects into your Divi website can easily be done by combining a few powerful built-in Divi features – scroll effects and transform rotation. The idea is actually a simple one. Before we move elements horizontally or vertically using scroll effects, we rotate the element’s container using transform rotate. This allows the …